The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-09-24
LIFE IN WEN MA.
Buffalo News.

Iractlcal ares, Dut not Oflun1cIIdl. Seven different costumes seen daily on the streets Laborers at noon lie down and sleep on the pavements. Ditto in the parks and on the grass. Both sexes seen lying side by side. No "keep off the grass" at every turning. Polish Jew frequent. In black gowns reaching to heels, high hats and long corkscrew curls Look like OtheliO. Big dogs drawing hand -carts. Street cars won't stop for you. Only &t certain places. Indicated by a sign post on track The tub the universal vessel to carry things in. Oval shape. One stave longer than the rest. So it can be bound on the carriers back. Carries all the water up the six or seven pairs of stone stairs in the Vii enna houses. Clean clothes ditto for wash. Separate shops for brandy, beer and wine. Peasant on spree carries green twig stuck in his hat band to indicate to the Vienna public his present mental and moral condi- ton. Hacks hung low on the wheels. Drivers in uniform. Everything ill uniform here Fares low. Ten cents carries you from Dombach to LeopCl- stadt. Suburban villages or G miles distant. Emperor and empress are frequently seen driving on the streets. No fuss all hats go oil as they go by. Soldiers everywhere: sentrics ditto, in chronic condition of saluting off cers Pleas abundant. Every body eats at the restaurant. Vienna is all ,I T I tie home cooking is done. Melange and rolls are the universal breakfast. Melange is half coffee and half hot milk, always brought you in tall tumblcr with a big tablespoon. Liv- ing here is very public. If you hire a room the chances are you must pass through somebody's bedroom to get to it, or have some one pass through yours. Female help, indifferent or oblivious to gentlemen lodgers, come right in at all hours, without knock ing, when on duty.
 Stoves are like monuments. nine feet high, covered with porcelain. The furnace holds about two quarts of coal. The rest is monument. Hand- some men, good shapes, full chests, fine bass voices. A pleasure to sit in railway station and hear the officials in charge call the trains. Handsome women ditto. Everybody out on the street and shopping by or in the morning. Nap at noon. Gardens full of families dining in open air at p. m. They go it till 9. Music, flowers, statuary all about. Eatin- not done at gulp. More happiness to the square yard. News papers small. Outside world disposed of in about twenty lines. Lots of small comic illustrated papers. "Trink halles" on every corner. Round pa godas. Girls inside. No room tol more. Sells lemonade, orangeade. soda water, and other light foggy fluid People here always swallowing some. thing
 Elevator at hotel Big fuss over it Two men in uniform to run it. Pace mile all hour. Beds all single. Every. body seems to sleep single here. On, more bed on top of bed quilt. Very light, full of feathers, in green silk bag
 Barracks everywhere. Six stories Full of soldiers. Soldiers everywhere Drilling everywhere. Drumming ev anywhere. Footing everywhere. Sol diers marching past hotels at five il the morning. Always getting ready to kill somebody Same all ovel Europe. Never out of sight of bay onet. Nations here arc awfully afraid of each other. Singular pumps. Very tall. Long, crooked iron handle Reach to the ground Tobacco shop all run by government. Keep stamps also. Invariable sign over door "K K." (King and Kaiser). The cmpe TOT does all the tobacco business. No much tobacco in their cigars. Washed out. Prices of groceries and dry goods always marked on articles il shop windows. Helps out to learn tn, language. Can read and translate a you walk.
 Cultivated shade trees lay over any, thing in america. Six rows, ful grown in some streets, with walk underneath. Fountains, benches every where. Business streets all shaded not bare to sun like Broadway ol Fifth Avenue. Bath houses five sto ries high. Everybody here reall, washes by the bath and not by tn, bed room washbasin. Went to one Girl cashier. Took my money. Turned me over to another girl. Black eyed Good looking. Went in with me Turned on water hot and cold. Botf of us waited for the tub to fill up Wondered if she'd leave. Strange country. Novel customs. Tub fill, up. Girl leaves. Examine door. Nc lock. Took of collar. Girl bursts il again. Brought more towels. And then aprons. Wondered what they were for. Found out. Inquired o1